Ron Burke

I love technology, especially at the inflection point between generations. We see the outgoing generation of hardware being pushed as hard as physically possible as developers discover new ways to wring every bit of power out of it. We see games finally able to take advantage of the tech, pushing

Omega Force, the team responsible for such games as the Dynasty Warriors series, Attack on Titan, Dragon Quest, Hyrule Warriors, Persona 5 Strikers, Dragon Quest Builders, and Fire Emblem Warriors are on a bit of a roll lately. They’ve put out some fantastic offshoots, and original titles these last

We are in an interesting time in the storage space. Thumbdrives are everywhere, but that’s starting to change. As the price of high speed SSDs come down, their capacities expand, and high speed interfaces catch up in the mainstream, I’ve stopped recommending thumbdrives entirely. Frankly, they are just

I don’t know how I ended up here, but I know how humanity died. It appears I’ve crashed my ship somehow, and I’ve landed…somewhere. I am most certainly alone, scrabbling amids the detritus of what looks to be an old radio tower. The pain in my

I’ve roared through the spaces between worlds as warfighters bore down on me, lasers tearing across the hull. I’ve barreled headlong over barricades as flames collapsed the building behind me into a fiery heap. I’ve stalked giant monsters across the landscape, unleashing brutal combinations of might and

The folks at Valve have turned out some excellent products, but let’s not pretend their track record has been flawless. The Valve Index is an incredible VR headset, and The Steam Machine was a solid idea executed poorly. The Steam Link was just ahead of its time, but the

While there is a lot of attention on the 4000 series cards from NVIDIA, they are far from the only game in town.  Intel is gearing up for a launch of their own — their Arc graphics cards, and they’ve not only announced  release window, but also pricing and some

At this point, despite what the mainstream media would suggest, the world has settled into a work from home mode. Zoom, Teams, Discord – whatever your poison, we are meeting with people across the globe. Once we get past the game show wheel of “Can you hear me?”, “You are on